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2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Voice Conversion by Prosody and Vocal Tract Modification
In this paper we proposed some flexible methods, which are useful in the process of voice conversion. The proposed methods modify the shape of the vocal tract system and the chara...
K. Sreenivasa Rao, B. Yegnanarayana
TASLP
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Transforming Perceived Vocal Effort and Breathiness Using Adaptive Pre-Emphasis Linear Prediction
Abstract--This paper presents a technique to transform high-effort voices into breathy voices using adaptive pre-emphasis linear prediction (APLP). The primary benefit of this tech...
K. I. Nordstrom, George Tzanetakis, Peter F. Dries...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
LSF mapping for voice conversion with very small training sets
To make voice conversion usable in practical applications, the number of training sentences should be minimized. With traditional Gaussian mixture model (GMM) based techniques sma...
Elina Helander, Jani Nurminen, Moncef Gabbouj
ICB
2007
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Histogram Equalization in SVM Multimodal Person Verification
It has been shown that prosody helps to improve voice spectrum based speaker recognition systems. Therefore, prosodic features can also be used in multimodal person verification in...
Mireia Farrús, Pascual Ejarque, Andrey Temk...